07-05-2013, 11:15 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-06-2013, 12:07 AM by FireIceTalon.)
Same rant, different day indeed. But doesn't make it any less true than it was the previous rant 
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Doesn't surprise me that Rand is on the list since pro-capitalist ideology and values get shoved down our throats at every turn, though I am a bit perplexed that she has the top spot on there. But it really just bolsters my points all the more, that most of society is clueless. Oh well. At least LOTR, Steinbeck and Orwell are on the list too, they crap all over her.
*Edit*
I just noticed that she is only on the Readers List. The Board obviously doesn't think too highly of her, since she isn't even on the list AT ALL, let alone on top of it, lol. Steinbeck and Orwell are on it though. Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" should have been on it though, too. But on second thought, I am not surprised that she is topping the readers list (I'm actually more surprised that she isn't even on the boards list) - it is a reflection of the sociopathic, individualistic, apathetic, and shallowness that permeates in our crapitalistic society.
But using such lists to prove a point anyways means little. People have little taste in anything these days. Otherwise, Justin Bieber wouldnt be worth millions with a shit ton of grammies. So I take such lists and awards with a grain of salt, in terms of them representing something with a qualitative value
.Doesn't surprise me that Rand is on the list since pro-capitalist ideology and values get shoved down our throats at every turn, though I am a bit perplexed that she has the top spot on there. But it really just bolsters my points all the more, that most of society is clueless. Oh well. At least LOTR, Steinbeck and Orwell are on the list too, they crap all over her.
*Edit*
I just noticed that she is only on the Readers List. The Board obviously doesn't think too highly of her, since she isn't even on the list AT ALL, let alone on top of it, lol. Steinbeck and Orwell are on it though. Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" should have been on it though, too. But on second thought, I am not surprised that she is topping the readers list (I'm actually more surprised that she isn't even on the boards list) - it is a reflection of the sociopathic, individualistic, apathetic, and shallowness that permeates in our crapitalistic society.
But using such lists to prove a point anyways means little. People have little taste in anything these days. Otherwise, Justin Bieber wouldnt be worth millions with a shit ton of grammies. So I take such lists and awards with a grain of salt, in terms of them representing something with a qualitative value
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (on capitalist laws and institutions)